Re: Xorg 7.2 update

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:57:27PM +0200, Marijn van Vliet wrote:
> On 19:47, Sun 27 May 07, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> > >I just updated my 6.2 box to the new Xorg 7.2 distro.  I followed all
> > >the directions in the UPDATING file.  It appears all the directories
> > >have been properly built.  I also successfully ran the "mergebase.sh"
> > >script from the Tools/scripts directory.  However, when I try to run
> > >X, I get the following error:
> > >
> > >(EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist), 0)
> > >Fatal server error:
> > >Unable to load required base modules, Exiting....
> > 
> > I had the same error when I reused an old xorg.conf. I commented out
> > some modules, until it worked. Don't remember which one though.
> 
> I had this and another problem when upgrading. This problem was sovled
> by correcting the paths in xorg.conf.

...as documented.

> The other problem was a message
> about the default font (fixed) not being found. This is solved by manually
> reinstalling font-misc-misc and font-cursor-mic:
> portupgrade -f font-misc-misc font-cursor-misc
> 
> Why this works, I have no idea. Do the fonts get corrupted by the
> mergebase script? After some googling I noticed more users were having
> this problem.

Yes, and none of them have yet provided a log of the build so we can
try to work out why.  Feel free to help us out.

Kris